Heroines Quotes

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Nina Simone

Young, Knowing, Heroes

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Robert Shea

Strength, Greatest, Tragedy

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.
Lee Child

Care, Give, Hair

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks

Love, Great, Fall

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
Nora Roberts

Women, Men, Real

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
Isabella Rossellini

Women, Play, Succeed

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.
Gemma Arterton

Love, Work, Age

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.
Carrie Preston

Funny, Truth, Said

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?
David Herbert Donald

Nice, Gay, Rather

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.
Sylvia Day

Often, Troubled, Resistant

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
Judith Krantz

Book, Through, Heaven

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
Cassandra Clare

Yourself, Book, Boring

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